Blueprint Optimization Tool (BOT)

"I’ve been that guy who didn’t think that this would work for us, or that we could effectively add more to our sheets. We are on a couple DRPs, and I was shocked when they approved close to everything additional we identified and captured on our first handful of estimates we ran through the BOT. We put every sheet we write through it now, and go through and pick every item that comes up that we know we are doing in the back. There is easily a couple hundred dollars per RO that it is helping us capture. If you identify 40 items, they aren’t going to pick apart every item, they may pick apart a couple. But the net result is more operations that we didn’t capture before, that we are now. On top of that, it makes you better at your job. It makes you think more about what is really necessary, what you are doing on a technical level, and how that should be communicated on the estimate. I was a skeptic, but I’m 100% sold on the value it’s generated for us."